It's in a bunch of places, so I thought to make one here. It's also because I don't remember having deep or intelligent thoughts lately on these forums. :B So anyways, let's talk about out usernames. It is our online identity after all, so it probably should be fairly consistent in use and tell something about ourselves (which is why I tend to loathe cookie-cutter names).
So, I'll start with myself. I came up with the name "Roureem Egas" a few years ago, where it was just Roureem in another forum that I no longer go to. I came up with it by guessing what the romanized transliteration of mirror would be in Japanese and put it in reverse. I later found out it was wrong, and it'd be more accurate to use "Arim." Egas, as I know some of you have noticed already, is also just "sage" spelled backwards. I have a deep fascination with magic and fantasy, and I associate sages and mirrors with such.
I'll also tell you guys how I came up with another name I go by in Trickster. In that game I use the name Kayes. That one I came up with because I had Kingdom Hearts on my mind. To do that I thought about keys, wanted something short, and something that looked like it could pass as a real name. And there you have it. How about you guys?
Mine is simple.
lurk on IRC. Which was always taken, so transliterated to llearch - ll as in belly, ear as in earn, and ch as in psycho. That was back in 96, as I recall.
One you have that, llearch n'n'daCorna follows as a matter of course.
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 05, 2007, 12:22:26 PM
Mine is simple.
lurk on IRC. Which was always taken, so transliterated to llearch.
Of course, it's pronounced something a bit like "tlee-ark" in Welsh >:3
Mine is taken from Jakob, obviously. When we switched forums I figured the time had come for something new, that was easy to connect to me for people who were on the old forum yet less obvious for people who know me elsewhere (since I'm still a little nervous about the whole fur thing).
As a plus, a quick search on google proved that it's rare as well (a record label and a fictional band).
ah, well... this will be simple
One day, years ago, I bought the plush kitty that is pictured in my avatar. I had some mini Reese's cups in traditionally colored foil on my desk at the time, and the colors matched the fur enough so that I named my new plush Reese.
One day, not quite so may years ago, I bought the PC game Morrowind, and I decided to play a Khajiit (cat person). As is a well known fact, to those that know it well, I suck at coming up with names. Since the bodies of the khajiit race in Morrowind were all the same model, that is stripped and orange and brown and cream, I stole my plushy's name to use in the game. Then I joined the forum over at furfire. At thie time, I was using various names that I stole from characters in books (if you know my email and AIM names, you'll know the two names I used for online identity before this point). I decided that, if I join this forum, I should have a furry identity to go by, and I recalled my character from morrowind (and my plush was on my desk, too). The rest, as they say, is anthropology. >:3
Sean Uxbridge, PERL USER.
...what did you think it meant? :B
Quote from: superluser on February 05, 2007, 01:27:31 PM
Sean Uxbridge, PERL USER.
...what did you think it meant? :B
that you were the best Luser in the world
Mines bizare... see I found this ancient tablet while visiting a isolated temple in napal, it was covered with strange hieroglyphics after years of work translating it I found a message addressed to me. It told me that I was to call myself TheGayHare so I could become a great warrior
LOL
I'm gay and I'm a Hare
*giggles* easy
Well its so odvious for some...No I did no make it out from MIB,MMPR,Sword of truth or a filmmaker...I made it all on my ownsome....And to some people out there...Im not the canadian letter Z
Back in the days when 2x speed CD-ROM drives were cutting-edge technology, my friends and I played a shareware game about rival gangs (kinda like a turn-based, VGA version of GTA :P), and we had to enter a nickname for it. Three characters at max.
I started to think and vaguely remembered one of the first Police Academy movies. You know, the one in which Mahoney infiltrates Zed's gang and has to use a fake name. My memory told me that that name had been "Sid", and so I used it. And since I liked it, I kept using it. It's short, memorable... and I only realized years later that (1) it's also a common name in the US and (2) Mahoney didn't actually use that name in Police Academy.
So my nickname is the direct result of me having a bad memory. Go figure. xD
My name was simple, I was just done with a calculus class so I was thinking of "the nth degree." I then thought about the word Valiant and decided to crunch the A and the I into a Y and slap on the H. And you get Valynth.
I have thus far never seen it used before.
Quote from: Sid on February 05, 2007, 02:10:20 PM
I started to think and vaguely remembered one of the first Police Academy movies. You know, the one in which Mahoney infiltrates Zed's gang and has to use a fake name. My memory told me that that name had been "Sid", and so I used it. And since I liked it, I kept using it. It's short, memorable... and I only realized years later that (1) it's also a common name in the US and (2) Mahoney didn't actually use that name in Police Academy.
That explains a lot - I was always trying to pin it to some Germanic name and failing miserably.
At the risk of drifting the thread, I've always been curious about the avatar you had before the hat thing - the one that looked almost but not quite like Wile E.Coyote...
Tapewolf thats Tech E. Coyote
he's the new yote from the lunatics cartoon
I like the name Jim.
THE END.
Oh, and the Halisstrad comes from a drow translator I found somewhere. I'll leave it up to the interested to figure out though.
I do have a feeling this has been done before but it was quite some time ago. Lots of new people since then. :)
Itos is a name used by a group. To specify which one you are you ad a short name that can be just about anything. Itos Jako5, Itos Jako4 and Itos Spade are some of us.
Itos itself comes from AITOS which stands for Artificial Intelligence for Tactical operations and Surveillance. The AI's name is Itos Atio.
Hmm, well, I randomly came up with my name one day when I realized I would need a sobriquet to use for my online personality. I suppose it comes from my a love of the stuff, a fondness for the color yellow, and also from Monty from the Rescue Rangers (a show on the Disney Channel back in the early 90's), who would always have a "cheese attack" whenever he smelled the stuff. On top of that, I thought it sounded decent too, and wouldn't be too hard to spell or say.
Derived quite obviously from Bill Buckner, the infamous Boston Red Sox who made The Error in the 1986 World Series. Possibly also the most underrated Boston Red Sox of all time.
to be entirely honest i pulled 'Brunhidden' out of my butt years ago. i think i was actually trying to create a name thats hard to spell and pronounce if you only see it once.
and i used to be "Brunhidden the Wired", im not exactly sure when but eventually it became "Brunhidden the Muse- free musings, inquire damnit".
after all theese years i still am deeply concerned about anyone who calls me "Brun-Brun chan", and im slightly scared at how many people call me that.
QuoteYou call that apathy? Thats not apathy, thats barely even disintrested. Down and give me twenty and try again, and it had better be apathy this time.
Quote from: Brunhidden da Muse on February 05, 2007, 02:56:07 PM
after all theese years i still am deeply concerned about anyone who calls me "Brun-Brun chan", and im slightly scared at how many people call me that.
Expressing sentiments like that is likely to increase their number, BrunBrun-chan. :-)
Quote from: Brunhidden da Muse on February 05, 2007, 02:56:07 PM
QuoteYou call that apathy? Thats not apathy, thats barely even disintrested. Down and give me twenty and try again, and it had better be apathy this time.
I'd give you twenty, but I can't be bothered. :-)
Reversed the syllables of the first name of Rictor Lasanti, a character in the Game Boy Advance SRPG "Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis"
Quote from: Tapewolf on February 05, 2007, 02:17:52 PM
That explains a lot - I was always trying to pin it to some Germanic name and failing miserably.
At the risk of drifting the thread, I've always been curious about the avatar you had before the hat thing - the one that looked almost but not quite like Wile E.Coyote...
The irony is that many US chat partners initially assumed that "Sid" is my real name. At the same time, it's so rare in Germany (unlike my real name, Christian) that tons of people call me "Sid" in real life since it's more unique and doesn't make ten people around me go "Mh? Me?", too. This happens to the degree of other people assuming that it actually
is my real name, despite not sounding remotely German (Oh the mindgames that I accidentally play...).
(Mod note: If the following goes to far, maybe branch off the avatar posts into a new thread, but I don't think it will escalate too much)
Avatar-wise:
The hat-thing is a MET hat (or Metool or whatever the official name is) from the Mega Man games (and anime). The funny thing about it is that it's COMPLETELY indestructible when it's hiding under the hat. Until it peeks out from under it, it's totally invulnerable to ANY weapon.
My previous avatar (http://www.youkai.de/sigs/tech_ava_120.gif) was indeed Tech E. Coyote, from the show Loonatics Unleashed (future setting, superhero team). Distant relative of Wile E. Coyote (who is, like, my total hero), too. He's the guy who invents all the cool gadgets (and since he's on the good-guy side, they actually work this time) for the team, and his powers are Magnetism and Regeneration (a pointer to the original Wile E., who obviously had this power, too).
Trivia: His fur isn't actually green, that's just part of his outfit (don't ask me how that works). Out of uniform, he looks a lot more like the good old Coyote.
Loonatics Unleashed made a major splash when they were first showcased as a more "EXTREEEM" version of the Looney Tunes, but they got toned down a good bit after the initial protest. I like it quite a bit, even though I have to rely on obscure IRC channels to get access to it since the show hasn't aired here yet (to my knowledge) *sob*
My name is genius... Aiyno wolf.. I was making a character and I dig second names yo.. So I thought hey that looks cool and used it. Then I borrowed Kyota from hell bound as an avatar stole the second name of the formerly referred character and pasted wolf after it because Kyota's Mells Half wolf half sister >:3
Okay actually everyone who looked at my profile page sees that Tytaj is my actual user name, this is just a merging of two of my other characters names (which I used in a *cough* IRC channel..) Tyca and Tajaka. Which I expected would mean everyone would know who I was, that didn't turn out how I expected it to :P
I was bored... Thats why I wrote my ingeniousness and school took my brain...yeah, thats my excuse...
Styg·i·an
Pronunciation: (stj-n), adj.
1.
a. Gloomy and dark.
b. Infernal; hellish.
2. Of or relating to the river Styx.
[From Latin Stygius, from Greek Stugios, from Stux, Stug-, Styx.]
Basically I just have a taste for The Divine Comedy. Then there are the overhanging features of my persona, though the gloominess is kind of ambiguous in meaning in this case. The name is also quite close to my own, why it fits perfectly.
When I was fifteen, and signing up for chat rooms, I had just read a Jannette Oke book called "A Woman Named Damaris." It was Chrisitan fiction, the name being from the book of Acts in the Bible, and I was a fairly devout Lutheran at the time. Eventually, I tacked on a 148 to the end of it, as Damaris was sometimes taken, and Damaris148 became my online identity.
At this point, the name no longer really reflects me as a person, but it's been my online name for so long that I hesitate to change it. Often, on AIM, you'll see me floating around with various "148" names, but the Damaris has been a constant, even edging it's way into real life occasionally.
Daimien...... Slimply put I got the nickname in high school. I went from Jesus to Lucifer to Daimien in the course of a year. I liked the name so it stuck. The full name is actually Daimien Darkcloud, but I didn't feel like putting the last name up. When I started showing up on that internet I was only on two forums. DMFA and TKT. TKT got Daemon and DMFA got Daimien. I also have two other names that are used for things Romulus and Sheabus, but those are unimportant at the moment.
Started off as kitsune riftwalker back when DMFA was using that other forum. that basically came from the magic: the gathering card. changing the last part to ascendant gave it a ring that agreed with me more, I suppose. It wasn't until after the change that I found there was a kitsune ascendant card in Magic as well.
Hmm... let's see...
For starters, I'm a mythology buff and an avid writer. I like to pick names that present layers of historical, religious, or literary signficance in addition to just sounding cool.
As some may have guessed, Tezkat is named for Tezcatlipoca, the Aztec god of the night, sorcerers, shapeshifting, and general troublemaking. I'm a fan of pre-conquest Mesoamerican history and mythos--I've even studied it at the university level--and the old smoking mirror always seemed to resonate with me. He's also an appropriate namesake for a black jaguar, being the god of jaguars and darkness. Now, most people can't even pronounce Tezcatlipoca, let alone spell it, so I shortened it to Tezkat. For an anthro feline, that also has the additional benefit of emphasizing the "cat" sound in the word. It has a nice ring to it.
As for the somewhat unique spelling...
Tezkat was originally intended as an identity under which I could publish anthro arts and whatnot. As such, I wanted to have a very spiffy, distinctive signature--it's part of your artistic identity, after all. I filled pages and pages of sketchbooks with test logos and signatures until I came up with something that flowed well and accurately reflected my personality (sample (http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/4788/tezkatconbadge019as.png)). The z-k transition made the design work, so that's the spelling I kept. I know, I know... that's a totally backwards way of doing things. I'm weird that way. :kittycool
Now you know. (And knowing is half the battle!) :mowcookie
[!]HAZ~MAT[!] was my first universal online alias, and by universal I mean not pertaining to a certain subject such as 'cstrjoe' (coaster-joe) which was my first screen name for a roller coaster forum. Over the years, I've experimented with alt codes and other variations such as ×HáZ×MáT×, and eventually came to my current screen name which was caused by a 7 character limit in Halo.
The name Ronin Foxtail came to mind through many things. Ronin was part of a flash game that I liked playing on newgrounds (Ronin: Spirit of the Sword). Foxtail was really just random. I was thinking of a character, wanted a fox, liked tails, and some random thing put the two together. I had the name while we were on the old forum, but as we were nearing the migration of forums, I decided to wait for it to happen before I switched out of my old name. The reason I switched names is mainly because "Draikhero" would sound like a stupid name for a fursona, dragon, fox or otherwise.
Whatever, just say randomness at the point in time.
My name was pretty much born out of randomness. I origionally thought of using "Mathias Armorvale" ("Mathias" came from the charactor of the same name from the Redwall series, and "Armorvale" just came to me out of the blue) .But then on impulse, I decided to change it. "Drake" was just a random thought, and "Manaweilder" sounded magicky, and had a nice ring to it. thus "Drake Manaweilder" was born.
Dang, now y'all got me thinking of changing it to Mathias again... :B
Oh jeez, now where do I start. Originally, my name just used to be 'Black Jackal', referring to a jester, which I sort of have an affinity for their outfits. I also really like the Keatons, from Legend of Zelda, so I added that to my name. Way back when, I used to get pretty pissy when people called me 'Keaton' for some inane reason. It was also during those times that I used to resemble some sort of mutated, yellow Mewtwo... but then I decided to follow my name and make myself a Black-Backed Jackal.
A yellow one. Because yellow is a bitchin' color.
So there you have it.
~Keaton the Black Jackal
Quote from: Drake Manaweilder on February 05, 2007, 07:46:37 PMDang, now y'all got me thinking of changing it to Mathias again... :B
Well, Matthias was the 13th apostle, if that fits with anything. You could change it to Mattathias (father of the Jude the Maccabee), just to be different.
Quote from: Keaton the Black Jackal on February 05, 2007, 07:50:50 PMI also really like the Keatons, from Legend of Zelda, so I added that to my name.
Aww, I was hoping it was Buster Keaton. Oddly enough, I don't even like Buster Keaton.
My first job out of college I had a coworker who was completely into astrology and she nicknamed everyone by their signs. (year of the dragon, sign of leo = dragoncat later morphing to dragonkitty) Frankly she was a flake and I'm not sure she remembered people's actual names. I got off better than bullbunny. :rolleyes
Originally, my nickname was Culbo. But people kept mistaking me for a guy...
I got 'RJ' from when I was on Neopets ages ago when I started up an account called 'Random_Joy' so I could use it to give presents to people over the Help Chat forum (before it went to the n00bs).
Eventually, the Giving & Co comic started up when I got involved in the Neopian Times and I got Random_Joy shortened to just RJ for my persona on it.
RJ pretty much stuck around until I joined Furcadia for a little while, when squirrel-RJ was created, and then the name changed into 'Raine Joybringer', which I pretty much use everywhere I go now.
I TOTALLY PUT A LOT OF EFFORT INTO MINE
Everquest random name generator :>
Kasarn was my Iksar Warrior.
I had the nickname Stalker when I was younger. When I first went into chat I wanted a nickname that wouldn't get lost in the crowd, and I dredged up my old one.
Five years later odd circumstances involving a nasty divorce, a nasty ex-wife, and a few unfriendly hackers caused me to lose that nickname on the IRC server I frequented. Since I had been Duelling (RPG single combat) as "Stalker, the grey ronin", I simply switched to The Grey Ronin.
As a further breakdown: Grey is my favorite color as well as the main color of my eyes, and generally denotes age and wisdom. As for ronin, I studied sword when I was younger, and my sensei is no longer alive, so I am literally a masterless swordsman.
(Or perhaps I just picked it out of a hat. *grins*)
Quote from: superluser on February 05, 2007, 08:18:37 PM
Quote from: Keaton the Black Jackal on February 05, 2007, 07:50:50 PMI also really like the Keatons, from Legend of Zelda, so I added that to my name.
Aww, I was hoping it was Buster Keaton. Oddly enough, I don't even like Buster Keaton.
Quite. Either that or Dean Keaton from
The Usual Suspects...
Oh, I probably have the simplest story of all: Gabi is short for Gabriela, my first name.
I was a member of other forums for years before I joined DMFA, but everyone always ended up calling me Gabi (to the confusion of new members who couldn't immediately associate 'Gabi' with... say... 'Lady Vulpix'). So when I decided to join the DMFA forum, I thought: they're going to call me 'Gabi' anyway, let's make things simpler and sign up as Gabi from the start. So there it is.
hmmm..well...
i had discoverd a long time ago about a fairy of Dragons Named Xzeliea, and Fantra was 'Fantasy' shortened, so the full name means (to me) Dragon of Fantasy.
as for my shortened username, 'Xze' became quite common on the old DMFA forum (who started that anyways?), so i kinda wanted to go 'cute' and add the second 'Xze' to make it 'Xze-Xze'...are you as confused as i am?
*hides mace behind his back*
show of hands, how many of you have your username here, a diffrent name on each IM program you have, another diffrent name for your DA or other galleries, and yet another diffrent name for each forum you go to?
form an orderly line, i would like to give you something.
QuoteIt tastes like free
In all honesty, I'm TheGreyRonin in most places I go. It's only in a few areas that I have a second account under a different username, and that's mostly due to paranoia and self-defense.
My real name is Richard, so having read the story of Richard the Lion-Hearted at an early age (about 8 or 9, I think), I tend to use "LionHeart" as a screen name where possible.
Since this (or rather the original Nice forum) was the first forum I signed up to, it made sense to make my avatar character an anthro-feline.
On the Keenspot forums, I signed up as "OzLionHeart", since it wouldn't let me use just "LionHeart".
My DA is "LionHeartAU", as I felt this was a good compromise and made me recognisable to people from both forums (plus I also couldn't use "LionHeart" there).
Back when I joined ICVDF, I thought mopeds and knights were neat, so I was the MopedKnight. The name became synonymous with retardation and ghey butt secks, so I changed it when the forum accidentally restarted and all previous names were lost.
The Joseph Dalmunda name was part family name and part original. Dalmunda is based on "Belmundo" and Joseph, well, that got used again back in the real world, so I switched out the name again.
Now I'm Warlike. Just look it up on one of those baby name sites, you'll get the idea.
So, like, back in the mid ninties there was this crappy song called "How Bizzare" by OMC. One of the characters in that song was named 'Zina', and I thought that was a neat name.
Yep.
Well...
I've had many nicknames/usernames
originaly my first was my xanga site and that was "Imperial_fox"
look up my profile and you'll find it then i used it here, but unsatisfied with it i made a moderation and now its "Blade fox"
1 i love swords
2 i have an odd liking towards foxes
3 to some one who didn't know me i would appear quiet and at the back
4 if you knew me i am pretty explosive, random and out there.
i'm not sure of the relavance of the last two, my usern. may change, hopefully not for a while.
so far i've whent through 12 usernames. i've also been toying with the character, idas and looks have changed quite a few times. but both character and name have been settled.
if those are not good enough reasons, and you had to ask...you wouldn't even understand me, honestly!
My name is steeped in mystery. It's a conundrum wrapped in a riddle! A fallacy in a ruse!
QuotePosted by: Netami
My name is steeped in mystery. It's a conundrum wrapped in a riddle! A fallacy in a ruse!
Really? I thought it was just "Net, Am, I" scrunched together.
I remember Netami once said that his name is the Japanese word for envy.
My name is a random amalgation of syllables that, by some twist of fate, is both completely original and the name of some obscure Nepalese festival that involves monks and the chasing of them.
origin of words is a funny thing. and really hard to use.
for instance my REAL name is about as german as you can possibly get without naming your kid adolf, but if you try to translate it into german you get diffrent meanings depending on what dialect you use. translations include "bearer of christ", "pack animal", "he-who-carries-the-meatcleaver", and "pile of rotting waste". and if you think that ones puzzling my LAST name seems to translate into either "unimportant knight", "rockspliter", or "ugly man with a big stick who shows up when you dont pay your taxes"
i have sneaking suspicions as to which of theese my name really translates into, and i still am irritated my parents were actually heard to say "lets name him something german sounding" prior to my birth. you do not know how relieved you are to live your life knowing you were ALMOST named Alouicious, Alois for short.
QuoteFeeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Brun: This one is for you.
http://torio.comicgen.com/d/20051212.html
I can sympathize somewhat, Brunhidden. My first name means either "from the grey wasteland" or "fungus", depending on which translation you use.
"He who listens" here, which might be correct. However "the pure" really is hilarious.
Quote from: Roureem Egas on February 08, 2007, 12:27:49 AM
I remember Netami once said that his name is the Japanese word for envy.
Yeah... Or that.
This reminds me of something. I've been thinking about changing my name to something else yet again. The current top runners are Dopple Dopple and Evil Penis. And before anyone says anything "Dopple Penis" is not a good idea for a name.
Penis Dopple
*nods*
It's superior.
*edit* Sorry, couldn't help myself *grin*
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, there was a comic that I read known as Full oc Monkey. There was an ongoing battle between Action Jesus and Spankachu that I found highly amusing. So, I began using it as a moniker. Usually my moniker is Yugo, but it varies from time to time.
Warlike, have you -ever- posted in Lost Lake or The Arena?
If so, your name on your post there will change when you change your name in your profile, and that name, whilst vaguely amusing, breaks the PG rating just a little.
Just thought I'd mention it....
Calm down. It hasn't even happened yet.
Besides, it's not like a penis is evil or something... oh wait...
Quote from: Warlike on February 10, 2007, 01:11:25 AMBesides, it's not like a penis is evil or something... oh wait...
A penis is not evil per se. It's a part of human anatomy.
Unsolicited penis in threads where anatomy is not being discussed, however, would probably cost the thread its PG rating.
Also, I call dibs on the username ``Unsolicited Penis,'' so you can't use it.
Quote from: Warlike on February 10, 2007, 01:11:25 AM
Calm down. It hasn't even happened yet.
I'm calm. I just thought you might want to think about the consequences of such an action, and hence why the mods would take a dim view of it. :-)
Quote from: Warlike on February 10, 2007, 01:11:25 AM
Besides, it's not like a penis is evil or something... oh wait...
heh. :-)
"Unsolicited Penis" would be a good name for a rock band. *hides*
Obligatory.
:epenis
Quote from: Brunhidden da Muse on February 06, 2007, 08:45:59 PM
*hides mace behind his back*
show of hands, how many of you have your username here, a diffrent name on each IM program you have, another diffrent name for your DA or other galleries, and yet another diffrent name for each forum you go to?
form an orderly line, i would like to give you something.
QuoteIt tastes like free
*partial hand raise*
the year was 199x, and my family had just aquired internet access by way of AOL(booo! *hiss*) Having just recently read the books in Gordon Dickson's "Dragon and the George" series, I set out to use dragon knight, or some permutation thereof as my email address/user name.
It still is.
Fast forward some four to six years, it is now December, 2000, and the SW:G development board has been open for a month. A certain yet to be kitty decides to join, and wants to come up with an appropriate name. Valder is born(stealing the name of the main character from the Larence Watt Evans's book "the mis-enchanted sword"), but only on those forums. Later, the little kitty signes up or an AIM account for the purpose of chatting with the other forum members(having since switched ISPs to something better than AOL or dialup). Valder is taken(it's a common german name? well darn!), and the kitty, very much a starwars fan, appends 1138 to his name. I have used that AIM name ever since.
Finally, fast forward a year; by various means(a link from the starwars boards to an "All Your Base" spoof comic on Dragon-Tails, the main page comic was the basketball story arc), this little kitty is introduced to web comics! yay! the list grows, and DMFA soon comes under the kitty's sights. Being, as of yet, socially ungraceful, the kitty builds his list of comics in silence, still known variously as Valder or the dragonknight, until he comes accross the SilverfoxR's comic, and goes so far as to join it's message board. but wait, what name should he use?
I believe the rest of this story is continued earlier in the thread, by another post in my name. :3
(now if only I could remember stuff for my history class like this :rolleyes )
Read Eibbor backwards. Tadah.
How is that pronounced, anyway? 'I-ber'?
I keep reading it as iBore, which (as I only now realize) is not exactly the nicest pronounciation... :animesweat *hides under a rock*
*check the custom title*
Name was my girlfriend's idea.(hence any girlyness) Her word is law.
I like alliterration.
I thought it was the coolest thing ever when I learned the Anagram for d-e-s-t-i-n-y was
d-e-n-s-i-t-y.
I've been called thick headed and dense before.
My favorite subject is physics and stuff like mass and states of matter.
Once, the stupid idea occurred that the one who controled the destiny of all density would have great power over matter.
Combine all these elements and my girl came up with the name.
I realised girlyness too late and have now changed second part to just D. in secret so said significant other will have no need to kill me.
Is the custom title a new addition, or did I just miss it before? Both seem equally likely, since I really don't pay attention to such things. Though I would bet that it's a new addition, unless, of course, you were your girlfriend's idea.
I like tigers.
'Tiger' was already taken.
My name starts with T.
Underscores rule. ( >:3 that and TigerT was also taken.)
Hm, I've done something like this a couple of times, but what the heck. Just for the record again. :3
My game goes all the way back to Furcadia...I read the comic, but I wasn't part of the forum yet, and this was even before I started to visit the real Lost Lake. I was creating a new character and needed a name...at the time I loved watching Outlaw Star and I thought of one of my favorite characters...you guessed it, Aisha ClanClan. I took the first name from her (although I was annoyed that a bunch of people inaccurately guessed that I took the "Aisha" part from Neopets). :rolleyes
At the time, my nickname was "Aisha Risen", and it was just a nickname back then as it is now, as I was only just starting her history...which was similar to what I have now. Anyway, I joined the forum a bit later under "Aisha deCabre", and the "deCabre" actually was a random thing. But looking at it, at the time, it looked vaguely Spanish. That was about the time I figured that Aisha was to be a jaguar (and jaguars live in areas that speak Spanish primarily. That's how the slight Hispanic thing to her character stuck, hence).
I'm no longer on Furcadia...it got boring, and all previous projects that I'd had there before had long since degenerated. So, I stuck to the forum and further developed Aisha here. Somewhat new, somewhat old. :)
And...that's me. x3
I'd also note that I wanted a name that, just like my real name, also started with an "A".
Quote from: HaZ×MaT on February 13, 2007, 05:24:35 PM
How is that pronounced, anyway? 'I-ber'?
Le shrug. However you like. The originally used pronunciation was Ee-bore, but at that point I was too young to really care about whether it was pronounced as it was written. Honestly, it doesn't matter to me. :)
"Ryudo Lee", the character, is all an ex-girlfriend's fault. We used to RP a lot through various IM's and she particularly liked the name Ryudo (I tacked on the last name Lee). And then she got me onto Furcadia, and it just took off from there. For awhile it was my fursona, but soon I learned to separate my fursona from RP characters.
My fursona is a raichu-morph, nicknamed Rai, but I'll go 'round on the internet as DaRai and in online games as Churai. "Churai" actually comes from one of the N64 Pokemon games where if you changed the name of the pokemon around, it would change the color of the pokemon. "Churai" didn't do anything to the color of my raichu, but it stuck. I use this one because more often than not "Rai" is already taken. "DaRai" was back from my days of haunting IRC channels on Furnet. The reason for adding "Da" to the name "Rai" was... at the time, we had a cat named Flash. And my brother used to always pick him up and say "it's da flash!" Flash didn't care, so long as he got put back down. So I just put Da and Rai together and "it's DaRai!"
Hmm... how did I come up with James StarRunner? It's not from Homestarrunner, that's for sure!
*ahem* Sorry, you just don't know how many times I get that...
At first I just needed something to call myself on the internet without revealing my whole name. I thought using my real first name was safe, but I still needed a new last name.
Now, I'm not a huge Star Wars junkie, but I had watched a few episodes of it right before I came up with the name. So as I sat down, I thought to myself, "Ok, self... What's higher than the sky and faster than walking?" As you can tell, the influence came from Skywalker. Anyways, my mind responded back to me. It said, "The stars are higher than the sky I guess and running is faster than walking. Ha! Beat that Luke! I have a superior name! Man, people are going to think I'm such a dork..." Nevertheless, I was too lazy to come up with anything else, so I slapped Star and Runner together for the last name, making James StarRunner!
It was originally meant for my human persona (and I still use it), but I was lazy when I joined the DMFA forum and made a new character with the same name.
Ya... kind of a lame method to come up with a name. That was about a decade ago though.
edit: Oh, and Zedd? You know you're named after the Canadian letter 'Z'. Don't deny it! :P
Quote from: James StarRunner on February 19, 2007, 05:24:15 PMThe stars are higher than the sky I guess and running is faster than walking. Ha! Beat that Luke! I have a superior name!
You do know that in early drafts of the film, his last name was Starkiller, right?
Quote from: James StarRunner on February 19, 2007, 05:24:15 PMedit: Oh, and Zedd? You know you're named after the Canadian letter 'Z'. Don't deny it! :P
I thought that he was named after A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers.
Quote from: James StarRunner on February 19, 2007, 05:24:15 PMedit: Oh, and Zedd? You know you're named after the Canadian letter 'Z'. Don't deny it! :P
Quote from: Posted by: superluser Posted on: Today at 07:30:58 PMI thought that he was named after A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers.
Your wrong Jamey! You cant prove a thing!! Yet the chinese-english dictionary sounds abit more like Mobys from SSX tricky speed
Ah...the username. I have several usernames and I can tell a very long story behind the origin of each. However, I'll stick with that of Destina Faroda, since it's the simplest even though it's ironically the least recognized.
In the video games of the Ogre Battle series, there's always a main character to lead the troops. In the first game, this character was not given a default name and could be male or female. However, later games of the series have retconned this character as not only being male, but being named -- Destin Faroda. I took the name Destina Faroda not only because I'm female, but to take on the female aspect of a character that has been assumed to be male.
Quote from: James StarRunneredit: Oh, and Zedd? You know you're named after the Canadian letter 'Z'. Don't deny it! :P
Heh, silly Canadians and their Chevy Corvette 'Zedd'-06. :giggle.
Hmm...
A few years back I was signing up for an account on GameFAQs and was thinking of a way to express my intolerance of ninjas. I was thinking something lame like "ninja terminator" but that sounded lame. Then I came up with "Ninja Annihilator"; sadly I could only use 16 characters. So I just merged the words on the 'a'.
Sadly it backfired on me and now I'm stuck with everyone calling me "ninja".
Ninja isn't a bad title. Ninja's steal cake and piss lightning.
That must be terribly uncomfortable. Not to mention tough on the fittings.